Yes there is: if you have work to be done with a low priority and no deadline, it's perfect.
For example, I bet the EC2 bill would be cheaper than my electric bill if I wanted to run SETI@home on a bunch of instances when it dropped below a certain mark.
The tech didn't exist 2 weeks ago, but now that it does there is a whole class of problems that can be solved more easily.
For example, I bet the EC2 bill would be cheaper than my electric bill if I wanted to run SETI@home on a bunch of instances when it dropped below a certain mark.
The tech didn't exist 2 weeks ago, but now that it does there is a whole class of problems that can be solved more easily.